[Spice-devel] Bug in spice-guest-tools-0.74.exe installer

[Christophe Fergeau]

Hey,

On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 02:36:39PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> Dear Spice Developers,
> 
> I can't figure out where to report this bug on Red Hat's Bugzilla,
> so if you will forgive me, I will report it here.

Reporting here is good



> 
> On Windows XP-Pro SP3, I just upgraded upgraded
>     old: spice-guest-tools-0.52.exe
>     new: spice-guest-tools-0.74.exe
> 
> And promptly lost my clipboard between the host and other virtual
> machines.
> 
> I trouble shoot it down to vdagent having the wrong path
> in the registry:
> 
> Bad entries:
> 
>       [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\vdservice]
>       "ImagePath"="C:\Drivers\vdagent-win-x86\vdservice.exe"
> 
>       [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\vdservice]
>       "ImagePath"="C:\Drivers\vdagent-win-x86\vdservice.exe"
> 
> 
> I corrected the issue by manually changing to the correct paths:
> 
>       [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\vdservice]
>       "ImagePath"="C:\Program Files\SPICE Guest Tools\32\vdservice.exe"
> 
>       [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\vdservice]
>       "ImagePath"="C:\Program Files\SPICE Guest Tools\32\vdservice.exe"
> 
> 
> And restarting the service.
> 
> So the bug is that the installer does not properly update the path
> to vdservice.exe in the registry.

I just tried installing 0.52, and the registry keys are correct. Maybe
you have installed vdagent from another source in the past?

Christophe
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